1761 in Denmark

Events from the year 1761 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick V
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Events

• 4 January – The Danish Arabia Expedition departs from Copenhagen.
• 13 January – The Fire Insurance for All Danish Market Towns is instituted by law.

Undated

• Georg Christian Oeder begins the publication of Flora Danica
• Johan Jacob Bruun begins the publication of his Novus Atlas Daniæ

Births

• 22 January Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, diplomat and music historian (died 1826)
• 27 June Jens Bloch, theologian and bishop (died 1830)
• 15 October – Peter Grønland, composer (died 1825)
• 2 November Edmund Burke, diplomat (died 1821 in France)
• 20 November Carl Conrad Gustav Knuth, landowner (died 1815)

Full date missing

• Edmund Bourke, diplomat (died 1821)
• Lars Lassen, landowner (died 1823)
• Marie Cathrine Preisler, stage actress (died 1797)

Deaths

• February 17 — Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor (born 1703)
• July 16 - Jacob Fortling, sculptor, architect and industrialist (born 1711)
• Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• 7 December Olfert Fas Fischer, naval offborn (died 1700)

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